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CARPENTERS PLANE..

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1921.

'1,&32,035. Patented Oct. 17,1922.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1921- Patented 00t.17,1922-..

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WILLIAM POTTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CARPENTERS PLANE.

Application filed September 28, 1921. Serial No. 503,881.

useful Improvements in Carpenters Planes,

of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to planes of various kinds and classes such as used by carpenters and others, and the object of the invention consists in providing planes of the class specified with a guide or guides the use of which facilitate the proper. planing of workpieces of various kinds and classes, and which will eliminate the constant use of squares and bevels and other measuring instruments to determine, whether or not, the workpiece is properly planed; a further object being toprovide a guide device ordevices of the class and for the purpose specified which may form a part of the plane or may be detachably mounted in connection therewith and which are provided with means for adjusting the positions thereof to adapt the same for use in connection with workpieces of different thicknesses, and with othermeans for adjusting said devices or parts thereof to permit of the planing of beveled faces on workpieces; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a guide device or devices of the class specified which are simple in construction and operation and .Below which the side portions of the frame efficient in use, and which are constructed a hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Fig. 1 is a side view of a plane showing two of my improved guide devices mounted in connection therewith and indicating the method of their use;

Fig. 2 a bottom plan view of the construction shown in Fig. 1 and showing a workpiece or board in section; I

Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 a diagrammatic sectional view on an enlarged scale showing the method of planing a beveled face on a workpiece orboard;

Fig. 5 a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing only the body portion or framework of the plane with modified form of guide devices mounted in connection therewith;

Fig. 6 a bottom plan view of the two guide devices shown in Fig. 1 and diagrammatically illustrating their attachment to the body portion of the plane and indicating the method of their use;

Fig. 7 a partial section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 5; and,

* ig. 8 a sectional view showing two workpieces with the planed faces thereof abutting together.

InFigs. 1 to 4 inclusive, I have shown one form of my improved plane guide device or devices and for the purpose of illustration I have shown at 10 a carpenters-plane of the usual general form and'construction, and the body portion or framework of which is composed of sheet metal and comprises a bottom plate 11 and upstanding 'side plates 12, and in the drawing 1 have shown at '13 two of my improved guide devices mounted in connection with the body portion or frame or the plane, both of said devices being of the same form and construction and being mounted in connection with the bottom plate 11 and side plates 12 of the plane as hereinafter set out.

My improved guide device comprises a main frame 14, the top of which is provided with an outwardly directed member 15 and the central portion of said frame is provided with another forwardly directed member 16.

are provided with forwardly and down wardly directed members 17 in which are mounted adjusting screws 18. In line with the members 17 are backwardly directed members 19, which are adapted to rest on the bottom face of the plane, or the bottom plate 11 thereof as clearly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing.

The frame 14 is provided centrally of the top portion thereof with a backwardly directed and apertured projection 20 through which a pin 21 passes, which pin also passes through apertured cars 22 on the upper end of a plate 23 to form a hinged connection of said plate 23 with the main frame 14, and a plurality of screws 24 are adjustably mounted in the plate 23 and being adapted to engage the inner face of the side plates of the plane to secure and hold the frame 14 in proper position. A bolt 25 is passed forwardly through the plate 23 and the frame 14, and is provided at its outer end with a winged nut 26 by means of which the frame ll and plate 23 may be moved toward one another to clamp said frame and plate in connection with the plane or one of the side plates 12 thereof.

A supplemental frame 27 is mounted in connection with the main frame 14, said supplemental frame being provided with an upstanding rod 28 which passes through the members 15 and 16 and is rotatably mounted therein. said supplemental frame being held in position by a shoulder portion 29 at the lower end of the rod 28 and by a pin 30 passed transversely through said rod above the member 15. j j

One end portion of the supplemental frame 27 is arc-shaped in form as shown at 31 and the other end portion thereof is slightly yoke-shaped in form as shown at 32 and adjustably mounted in the recess 33 formed by the yoke-shaped end portion 32 is a shoe member 34.. The shoe member 34 is held against displacement from the supplemental frame 27 by a screw 35, the head of which is countersunk in the face of the one above the screw 35 and the other below the same, and said screws co-operate with the shoe memberBl to hold the same in any desired position of adjustment.

It will be noted that the adjusting screws 18 mounted in the member 17 are-adapted to cooperate with the arc-shaped portion 31 of the supplemental frame 27 to hold said frame in any desiredposition of adjustment, and it is apparent that said. supplemental frame is capable of a rotary adjustable movement in the main frame which adjustment is controlled by the screws 18.

In the use of my invention one or two of the guide devices may be employed or mounted in connection with a plane. but it is preferred to use two, and in this use one of the devices is mounted in connection with the rear end portion of one of the side plates 12 with the shoe 3 f directed forwardly, while the other of said guide devices is mounted on the front end portion of the other side plate of the frame with the shoe 34 thereof directed backwardly as is shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, and the supplemental frames 27 of said devices are adjusted by means of the screws 18 thereof so as to bring theshoes 3-1 into cont-act with the opposite faces of a workpiece or board 37, and if it is desired to plane the edge of theboard or workpiece 37 at right angles to the side faces thereof,

the shoes Stare adjusted into a vertical plane, or a plane at right angles to the bottom face of a plane as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing. The plane may now be moved over the workpiece 37 to plane the edge thereof in which operation the guide devices will operate to properly support the plane and centralize the workpiece on the bottom face thereof, and by providing a suitable cutting edge on the tool of the plane, the edge of the workpiece or of several workpieces 37 may be provided with a slight concave cut 38 as shown in Fig. 8 of the drawing which will facilitate the joining of said faces, or two separate workpieces provided with such faces by reason of the fact that a greater body of glue or other adherent substance 39 may be held between the parts or workpieces to be secured together and yet produce a neat and finished join.

It will be understood that the supplemental frames 27 may be adjusted inwardly and outwardly, or at right angles to the longitudinal line of the plane so as to bring the shoes 34 of the guide devicesinto engagement with the opposite faces of the work-pieces to be planed, and by reason of the slight lateral movement of the shoes 3 1, said shoes will adjust themselves to the proper position to work or bear upon the opposite faces of a workpiece, and in Fig. 2 of the drawing I have indicated in dotted lines an inward adjustment of the guide'devices.

In Fig. 4 of the drawing I have diagrammatically illustrated the adjustment of the shoes 34 of the two guide devices shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to illustrate the method of their use in cutting beveled edges on workpieces, in other words, by moving one of the screws 36 of each of the guide devices outwardly and the other of said screws 33 in wardly, the shoes 34 will assume an angular position but the inner or bearing faces thereof will be parallel one with another so as to bear on the opposite or parallel faces of a workpiece.

In Figs. 5 to 7 inclusive, I have shown a modified form of guide device or devices, and the guide device shown in said figure comprises simply a shoe member 38, one end portion 39 of which is approximately rectangular in form and the other end portion of which is curved and slightly tapered as shown at 40, and mounted approximately centrally of the end portion 39 of the shoe member is a vertical pin al which extends through the top face of the shoe member and is adapted to pass upwardly through a sleeve 42 mounted in connection with the frame of the plane, or forming part of the bottom and side platesll and 12 thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 7, and the top portion of the pin all is provided witha suitable catch device 43 to secure said pin against displacement in the sleeve 42, and said catch devlce in the construction shown comprises a disk 44 held in firm engagementwith the top of the pin4l as well as the topof the sleeve 42 by a coiled spring 45 secured in the bottom of an aperture 46 in the upper end.

portion of said pin.

"A plate 47 is secured to the outer face of the end portion 3910f the shoe member 38 by screws 48, said plate is provided at its opposite sides with upwardly directed tubular members 49 in which are-mounted adjusting screws 50 which are adapted to cooperate with the side plate or plates of the pin to hold the shoe member 38 in any position of adjustment. It will be understood that two of the shoe members 38 are mounted in connection with the plane or the body portion thereof, and said plane is provided with two of the sleeve members 42, one at the rear end portion of the plane and the other at the front end portion thereof, and in. mounting the shoe members 38 in connection with the plane, the pins 41 thereof are passed upwardly through the sleeve members 42 and the disk 44 at the top of said pins are moved laterally to hold said shoe members in connection with the plane, after which the screws 50 are moved inwardly or outwardly to engage the outer faces of the side-plates 12 of the plane to secure the shoe members 38 in any desired position of adjustment, and in Fig. 6 of the drawing I have shown in full lines one position of said shoe members and have also indicated in dotted lines another position thereof.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Aguide device for planes of the class described comprising a shoe member mounted in connection with the plane and adjustable transversely of the bottom face of the plane in a plane parallel with said face.

2. A guide device for planes of the class described comprising a shoe member mount ed in connection with the plane and adjustable transversely of the bottom face of the plane in a plane parallel with said face, and means for holding said shoe member in dif ferent positions of adjustment.

3. A guide device for planes of the class described. comprising a shoe member adapted to operate in connection with one side face of a workpiece to be planed, means for detachably mounting said shoe member in connection with. the plane, and means for adjusting said shoe member transversely of the bottom face of the plane in a plane parallel with said face.

4. A guide device for planes of the class described comprising a shoe member adapted to operate in connection with one side face of a workpiece to be planed, means for detachably mounting said shoe member in connection with the plane, means for adjusting said shoe member transversely of the bottom face of the plane in a plane paral lel with said face, and means for holding said shoe member in different positions of adjustment.

5. The combination with a carpenters plane, of guide devices movable in a plane parallel to and transversely of the bottom face of the plane for centering a workpiece 011 said face of the plane.

6. The combination with a carpenters plane, of guide devices movable in a plane parallel to and transversely of the bottom face of the plane for centering a workpiece on said face of the plane, said guide devices being adjustable toward and from each other.

7. The combination with a carpenters plane, of guide devices movable in a plane parallel to and transversely of the bottom face of the plane for centering a workpiece on said face of the plane, said guide devices being adjustable toward. and from each. other, and means for holding said devices in different positions of adjustment.

8. A guide device for planes of the class described comprisin a body portion, means for movably mounting the body portion in connection with one side of the plane, a shoe member pivotally mounted in connection with said body portion and adapted to move in a plane parallel to and transversely of the bottom face of the plane, and means whereby said shoe member may be held in predetermined positions on said body portion.

9. A guide device for planes of the class described comprising a body portion, means for detachably and adjustably mounting said body portion in connection with the stock of the plane, a shoe member movably mounted in connection with said body portion and adapted to be moved in a plane parallel to and transversely of the bottom face of the plane, and means for regulating the movement of said shoe member.

10. The combination with a plane of the class described of guide devices comprising body portions adapted to be detachably mounted in connection with the stock of the plane and adjustable longitudinally thereof, shoe members movably mounted in connec tion with said body portion and adapted to be moved in a plane parallel to and transversely of the bottom face of the plane, and means on said body portions for holding said shoe members in different positions of adjustment.

11. The combination with a plane of the class described of guide devices comprising body portions adapted to the detachably mounted in connection with the stock of the plane and adjustable longitudinally thereof, shoe members pivotally mounted in connection with said body portions and extending longitudinally of the plane and adapted to move in a plane parallel to the bottom face of the plane, and means for adjusting the position of said shoe members transversely of the bottom face of the plane.

12. The combination with a carpenters plane of guide devices comprising body portions adapted to be detachably mounted in connection with the stock of the plane and adjustable longitudinally thereof, arms pivotally mounted in connection with said body portions and extending longitudinally of the plane and adapted to be adjustedtransversely of the bottom face of the plane on said parts, means for holding said arms in different positions of adjustment and shoe members carried by said arms, and means for adjusting the angular'position of said shoe members in said arms With reference to the bottom face of the plane.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing 24th day of Sept, 1921.

WILLIAM POTTER.

' 20 as my invention I have signed my name this 

